The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1887-01-01
or GENERAL INTEREST.
Parrots are coming in as fashions
BILE pets.-N Y. MGiL

Parrots are coming in rs fashions
BILE pets.-N Y. Nail
Three boys ranging In age from
eleven to fourteen years are serving q
term of two years each in the California
penitentiary for burglary at San Jose.
1T is said that "mule can not
bray if brick be tied to his tall"
The Burlington Free Press raises the
question, "What becomes of the fellow
who adjusts the brickP"
mix Chicago with Pittsburgh and
salt the whole with smoky sandstone, "
writes Carp, 'aAd you have the great
Scotch city of Glasgow. II is larger
than Chicago, and better built than
either Chicago or Pittsburgh.
"A good many of the colored people
are satisfied that if the artesian wells
had not been bored there would have
been no earthquake. They are just as
well satisfied with their theory as many
of the scientists are with theirs.-SG-
UGinah NetOS.
The Grand Army Of California con.
tains representatives ftofn every Massa-
chusetts regiment and organization
that served in the war except the tenth,
fifty-fourth and tifty-fifth infantry; the
two latter being colored regiments.
San Francisco Call.
The deepest sea.sounding yet eff
fected was made off the coast of New
Guinea with four hundred weight
lead sent down from the English ship
Challenger, which struck bottom at
the enormous depth of twenty-six thou
sand seven hundred feet.
Eggs transported long distance
in railway cars are said to become In.
famed to such an extent as to be I'M
safe as an article of food. Probably II
packed in such way as to secure
them against jolting this result might
be prevented. Globe.
AT restaurant in Tucson during
the late heavy washout, when no train
had arrived for several days and there
were no potatoes in the market, the
bill of fare was printed, Potatoes en-
route, and another read, POTATOES In
box car. ~ San Francisco Chronicle.
Reports of peculiar case of blood
poisoning come from Culiacan, Mex,
Some time ago a lady was pecked on
her arm by a hen. and shortly after she
began to feel pricking sensation
about the spot Then her arm became
inflamed and swelled rapidly, and the
next day she died, the physicians be-
ing ignorant of any means of affordine
her relief.
! "A convict in the Jail at Athens,
Ga, stripped the iron hoops from his
! cell tub, made them into saw blades
sawed through an iron bar an inch
| square, making n hole in the window
fourteen inches square, soaped his
naked body and thus slipped through
it, and was then detected by the sheriff,
He said that he had to get out of hl'
dark cell.
Mr.. Horace Andrews, an American
gentleman now in London. has writer
to n friend in Boston that he ha.
! learned that there is in possession o.
a French family, near Paris, portrait
(life-size bust) Of Franklin, by the ia
nous portrait painter, Greuze. 1t wa
purchased from u royal palace during
the French revolution in 1910. Mr.. An
drews says. He suggests that, though
II would cost large sum, 1t ought T.
in Boston. Boston Journal.
-"What bothers society ladies NOR
than any thing else is to keep up wit
the fashions in walking says tn
Atlanta Constitution. Zone season
lady will be expected to adopt VIII
ming gait. At another time swingin
strides will be the style. The slo,
walk and the rapid pace alternate
popularity. Nothing lasts long.
fashion DEGREES that u woman mus
make herself perambulatng convu
sion of millinery and dry goods, it j
all right. The style must have ii
run.
There Is village just outside @
New Haven that knocks Enoch Arde
out. The soprano of the church choi
is good-looking young woman {
thirty summers. Her second husban
plays the organ, and No. /, who WI
divorced, works the organ pump Il
the good of the church. And the mu
ical couplet Of husbands are goo
friends. The divorce law has been 90
down to such fine point in Connect
cut that 1t isn't any longer oonsidere
good form for the principals to get OF
of humor with one anOther.--M ]
) Times.
Among the old papers in the cour
ty clerks Office at Freehold, N. j.,
the death sentence of negro name
Caesar. 1t reads: Therefore the cOu
doth judge that thou, the said Casa
shall return to the place from whent
thou earnest, and from thence to Il
place of execution, when thy risl
hand shall be cut off and burned B
fore thine eyes. Then thou shalt
hanged by the neck till thou art dea,
! dead, dead; then thy body shall be CT
down and burned to ashes in fir
and so the Lord have mercy on I'll
soul, Caesar IN. Y. Tribune.
, A Contemplate Cook.